Utsav Ghandi didn’t know that Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who devours news cycles like a land-locked tiger shark, recently created an Office of New Americans. It elicited scant interest in the local press, but the young immigrant’s counsel is succinct.
“Focus on those 12 to, say, 19 years old, the age when they may [...]
In 1630, John Winthrop sailed across the Atlantic Ocean seeking sacred ground. Hounded in England, the Puritans would be free to worship as they wished in the New World. A footnote in someone else’s story over there, they would author their own destiny here. But Winthrop didn’t expect the soil here to contain special sacraments. [...]
CHICAGO — For a guy who is only 35 and lives in a walk-up apartment, Eboo Patel has already racked up some impressive accomplishments.
A Rhodes scholar with a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University, he has four honorary degrees. His autobiography is required freshman reading on 11 college campuses. He runs [...]
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